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Education Innovation

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Clerkship students as teachers: The role for a student-led bedside teaching program in medical school

The ability to teach effectively is an essential skill for physicians; however, medical students may not receive sufficient opportunity to develop this skill during medical school. In this study, we sought to investigate the perceptions and potential benefits of clerkship students engaging in an innovative peer-assisted bedside teaching (PABT) program.

Over a three-year period, clerkship students on their Internal Medicine block at uOttawa were recruited to conduct a bedside teaching session for pre-clerkship students. Tutors taught two 60-minute small group sessions based on their choice of patient admitted to the Internal Medicine ward. Each session was organized to have a traditional teaching component, a bedside teaching component, and a debriefing component. After the session, tutors and students completed a feedback questionnaire.

32 clerkship students and 117 pre-clerkship students completed an evaluation of the program. 94% of tutors felt that they improved their teaching skills and 84% felt they had increased levels of confidence in their teaching abilities after their session. Only 34% of tutors reported that they had many other opportunities to teach during medical school. 94% of pre-clerkship students found the sessions reinforced the clinical skills they had learned in medical school, with 79% and 77% feeling more comfortable taking a history and physical exam respectively. Our study found that PABT is an effective method for fostering teaching skill and confidence among clerkship students, with the additional benefit of reinforcing clinical skills taught to pre-clerkship students. PABT may have potential to meet the demand for teaching opportunities in UGME.

Bedside Teaching

Peer Assisted Learning

Peer Assisted Bedside Teaching

Undergraduate

Teaching and learning

Undergraduate

Professionalism

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